The Will to Fight: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

The battles rage loud and ferocious at the gates of the city and off in the ruined wastelands of Erda, and on the walls a struggle of a different kind occurs. The team who stayed behind at the towers are small but determined as they move stoically across the walls to right the stones that have become misaligned, even as their friends battle not too far away.

The city begins to hum. It's a quiet hum, not loud enough to be heard out where the others are fighting but it vibrates even through stone. The recovering monks assure them that it is done, the wards are back up and no demon will be able to enter the city.

Eventually the battle is won, all three battles. The demons fought back and killed, a major blow to their gate system that will keep them back for hopefully a long time. Those waiting in the caverns return to the city and by the time they get there the illusions are gone. Everyone can see the world for what it really is.

But despite the ruins of their world the people are relieved, the adrenaline of the fight coursing through their veins and the mood is one of hope. They will build again, their people will survive.

All Voidtreckers please return to the Voidtrecker Express. Departure will be in a few hours

It has landed not too far from the city, cloaked to make it unnoticeable to the citizens, for all the good that does. No one has been particularly subtle this last week. People can begin regrouping, packing up the camp and getting any wounded not already healed to the train.

However roughly half an hour later another message appears on their SCA.

Passenger Persephone has requested we remain on system System #86525656412355 for an additional day to further assist the people of Erda. The Voidtrecker Express will depart on the morning of Day Fifteen of the month of Kazoo.

The train remains where it is, so the voidtreckers can use its facilities. There is definitely a lot that can be done to assist those of this world and the citizens will welcome any helping hands.

After an extra day they finally depart, returning to the void once more.

(OOC Note: Once the wards are up any characters who are demonic in nature will not be able to enter the city either!)

Comments

[melodiouspacifist]

"Then how would that work? If I replace it with something else then I'm still not..."

He frowned. "I wouldn't be my Somebody anymore would I?"

[thawed_pride]

"I...don't know." He shook his head. "There is much we still don't know about Nobodies. Whether the new heart is a recreation of the original or something entirely different, and your lack of memories of your original self complicates matters. I am little different from my Somebody, but my new heart developed with the guidance of my knowledge of who I had been as Even. There is also the question of what becomes of a Nobody who grows an entire new heart, if that has the same effect as recompletion or results in the paradoxical half-existence of a being with the properties of both a human and a Nobody."

[melodiouspacifist]

Sometimes, very few times at that, Demyx would let on that he was understanding something. That question had come from there, a shimmer of intelligence he wasn't willing to let through otherwise.

He shouldn't have asked the question, he didn't know what to make of the answer. Without his memories to guide him, just what could he become?

More importantly, Demyx would cling to whatever it was.

He responded, not with words, but by getting to his feet, clinging to his sitar.

"I'm going to catch a nap." He didn't offer a smile. It also wasn't true, he needed to think. He opened up a portal and fled.

[thawed_pride]

He sputtered at the appearance of the portal, and called out a hasty "At least borrow my coat if you're going to do that!"

By the time he'd stumbled to his feet, however, Demyx was already gone. He wasn't sure if he'd even heard him inside the dark corridor.